Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Life Sucks, Best Laid Plans, Hate Life

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Depression, Lying, Stupid

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Dying, Found

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Plato, What If, Meaning Of Life

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• The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Life Is, Life Worth Living

  Apology, 38a (translated by H Tredennick).

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• Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Life Is, Prepared

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.700, Regnery Publishing

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• Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

  Jessie J

  Lonely, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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• The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

  Annie Dillard

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

  Colin Quinn

  Greek, Firsts, Life Is

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• I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, People, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.4, Vintage

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• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Good Life, Inspirational Life, Matter

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

  Monica Seles

  Funny Life, Pasta, Bread

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

  Walter Benjamin

  Suicide, Character, Feelings

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.542, Harvard University Press

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• Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

  Saul Bellow

  Wish, Alternatives, Life Is

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Lunch, Looks

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.148, A&C Black

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• I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

  Harvey Milk

  Giving, Ems, Life Is

  The Times of Harvey Milk, www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Cooking, Cheese

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.65, A&C Black

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• The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

  Adam Leipzig

  Life Is, Unexamined Life, Examining

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Dying

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